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Can tweets be used to detect problems early with scientific papers? A case study of three retracted COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 papers findings - Wang et al.

Reason for retraction of Wang et al. publication was due to the use of T-cell lines instead of primary T cells, which made the flow cytometry methodology flawed

  • “Primary” mentioned in 14 tweets before retraction and 4 since retraction
  • First warning tweet about the accuracy and validity of the t cells methodology posted 2 days after publication, or 3 months prior to retraction, on April 9, 2020
  • Before retraction, 23 tweets mentioned “flow cytometry” and 101 tweets mentioned “flowcytometry,” most of which were retweets
  • First warning tweet about flow cytometry also posted on April 9, 2020
  • Only 1 tweet after retraction notice mentioned “flowcytometry” and 0 mentioned “flow cytometry”

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Updated 2021-05-06

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